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Contents 1 Japanese high school baseball 2 Misleading title for page 3 major league 4 Edited non-neutral POV text in opening paragraph 5 League Structure

[edit] Japanese high school baseball

i know that in japanese high school baseball they have a nationwide playoff with the best team from each prefecture competing to win a national title(?)

since the topic of this article is 'japanese baseball', could some mention of this be included? i don't know enough about the topic to begin, but i think it merits being included as it was a pretty big deal when i was in japan. Thepedestrian 18:27, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

It is mentioned in the Hanshin Tigers page, IIRC. Plexust 08:18, Oct 01, 2004 (UTC)

See Koshien Stadium. Fg2 09:32, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Article High school baseball in Japan has been added. Ken6en 02:42, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I'll post this in the "It's New" section of Wikipedia:Japanese Wikipedians' notice board. Thanks. Fg2 07:27, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Misleading title for page

Since this article deals almost exclusively with Japanese professional baseball, I think the page's title should be changed to Japanese Pro Baseball (Nippon Pro Yakyuu) or something of the like. That way, the page could be more focused in general. Rockfender 05:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• I changed this, splitting out Japanese baseball and Japanese professional baseball and highlighting the difference between the JBL and NPB. Please make any changes you see fit. FJM 12:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] major league

If anyone is interested in doing this, I'd like to see a section detailing the major league status of Japan's professional baseball circuits and how they measure up to the National League and American Leagues. 67.46.0.13 11:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edited non-neutral POV text in opening paragraph

The second paragraph of the opening to the article was written with a rather opinionated POV, so I edited it to be more neutral. The old text is:

Some players from the Japan who have gone on to success in North America's Major League Baseball include Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Ichiro Suzuki, Akinori Otsuka, Tadahito Iguchi, So Taguchi, Kenji Johjima and Hideki Matsui. There have been some unsuccessful transfers, including those of Kaz Matsui and Hideki Irabu.

What particularly caught my eye was the terms "success" and "unsuccessful". What standards were these based on? Basically any standard used is an opinion, in my mind. Therefore, the paragraph cannot be neutral-POV. The edited version that I wrote is as follows:

Some notable Japanese players who have gone on to play in North America's Major League Baseball include Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Ichiro Suzuki, Kenji Johjima, Hideki Matsui, and Hideki Irabu.

--Ohms law 12:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] League Structure

As of 2007 the Orix Buffaloes and the Yomiuri Giants are the only teams whose name have no suggestions to the francised area.

Corporate names which has a origin in area names (I admit these are not used often as place names) are:

Chunichi Dragons: Chunichi is the coined abbreviation of Central Japan.

Hanshin Tigers: Hanshin is the Chinese characters in Osaka and Kobe (metropolitan area)

Other teams have explicit references to their franchised cities / areas.

--Soredewa (talk) 01:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)